The RIPE Database Working Group requested the RIPE NCC to replace the “changed:” attribute in the RIPE Database with “created:” and “last-modified:”. Following discussions at RIPE 69, the RIPE NCC has met with the working group chairs and finalised an implementation plan consisting of three phases:

  1) introduce the new attributes “created:” and “last-modified:”

  2) make the "changed:" attribute optional

  3) deprecate the "changed:" attribute.

The time lines and documentation for each phase are detailed here: